Rome is beautiful. I watched the view of the city streets and I can never felt happier seeing the sun because Manchester was all gloomy and depressing. Seeing the sun reminded me of Malaysia. I miss,you heat! I am beginning to appreciate you even more. I finally get to put on my shades which was berabuk in my closet.We arrived at Rome Fiumicino (Terminal 2) via easyJet. Because we fly from Prague, (Czech Republic) so it is within Schengen Area, like traveling domestically between Euro countries, we didn't have to go through passport checks, we went straight to baggage claim area.
Roma Pass
We bought the Tourist pass at the Tourist Center inside the airport itself, near the baggage claim area (depends where you landed, supposedly all airports have Tourist Center. The tourist pass which is the Roma Pass is a 3 day travel pass worth
€36
that can be used for all metro trains and access to selected main attractions in Rome. We used this pass to enter Colosseum, Villa Borghese and Roman Forum. To me, I think it's worth it where you don't have to go through the long queue (approximately 2 hours) at the Colosseum entrance, but you can always check other's opinion on Tripadvisor to check whether it's worth it or not.Again, I think it's worth it considering that you will use that pass for traveling around Rome without thinking of buying separate tickets for the transportation and for the entrance of the tourist spots.
I actually saw these passes were sold for €28 when we were at Termini Station. So I think it is based on your luck whether you can get it cheaper or not. BUT be careful when they're selling it cheap because they might be fake ones.
Airport Transfers
As for the airport transfers to the town, we took Schiaffini for €6 single trip or €8 return. I don't want to recommend this because the frequency of the bus is once every hour! Bloody late! Take Terra Vision instead. You can get the tickets at the airport, there were rows of booths selling airport transfers just like we used to had at the LCCT.
Oh! Did I not tell you the locals are
manipulative if not liars? The guy at the Tourist Center claimed that we
could get to pay only €4 with the Roma Pass. That didn't happened.
